the Bronze Age
noun
: a period of time that began between 4000 and 3000 B.C. in which people used bronze to make weapons and tools
The artifact dates to the Bronze Age.
a Bronze Age weapon/tool
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A long time ago Ancient Greeks and the Romans considered Tyrian purple, first developed in the Bronze Age, an elite, royal color.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 June 2024
Other recently found artifacts from the Bronze Age included a unique metal arrowhead, the university said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
The group said the ship dates back to the Bronze Age, which art historians define as the period in the Near East between 3600 and 1200 BC, according to Harvard University's art museums.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
Last year, another team of researchers suggested the Bronze Age Yamnaya people were riding horses in the Eurasian steppe roughly 5,000 years ago.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
The structure, built during the Bronze Age and considered an important landmark of British heritage, is protected by law and cataloged as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 19 June 2024
The team suggests the Bronze Age Sintashta culture achieved this feat and quickly used the animals to move and expand throughout Eurasia.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
That phenomenon makes the AI age fundamentally different from the Bronze Age or the steel age.
—Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
Now, a high-tech protein analysis of cauldrons used by nomadic people in present day Mongolia during the Bronze Age indicates that the cookware was used to make sausages and ferment milk.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 June 2024
Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 June 2024
Other recently found artifacts from the Bronze Age included a unique metal arrowhead, the university said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
The group said the ship dates back to the Bronze Age, which art historians define as the period in the Near East between 3600 and 1200 BC, according to Harvard University's art museums.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
Last year, another team of researchers suggested the Bronze Age Yamnaya people were riding horses in the Eurasian steppe roughly 5,000 years ago.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
The structure, built during the Bronze Age and considered an important landmark of British heritage, is protected by law and cataloged as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 19 June 2024
The team suggests the Bronze Age Sintashta culture achieved this feat and quickly used the animals to move and expand throughout Eurasia.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
That phenomenon makes the AI age fundamentally different from the Bronze Age or the steel age.
—Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
Now, a high-tech protein analysis of cauldrons used by nomadic people in present day Mongolia during the Bronze Age indicates that the cookware was used to make sausages and ferment milk.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 June 2024
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